Will e-booksellers retain customer data?

Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm / 17 Aug 2013

eReaders.nl reveals that Dutch anti-privacy group BREIN wants to force e-booksellers to retain customer data for two years. The purpose is to track down e-book piracy through a watermarking system. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is appalled.

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the so-called Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) is invalid. According to the Court, the Directive constitutes a serious interference with the right to private life and…

The State of the Netherlands acted unlawful by enacting private copying legislation under which certain digital devices were not imposed with a levy. This is the outcome of a case the attorneys of bureau Brandeis…